Elizabeth (Libby) McClure
About
Libby McClure is an occupational epidemiologist with several years of experience conducting community-engaged research projects as well as large-scale records-based disease and mortality studies.
McClure's research background is rooted in environmental justice and addresses community concerns. She employs collaborative methodologies to engage with stakeholders and study how communities facing occupational and environmental hazards experience and challenge oppression in their daily lives. Broadly, her work is focused on the ways in which historical and structural inequalities produce health disparities using social and environmental justice-focused, community-driven research that both critically complicates traditional study of health and illness and also supports social change.
Key Publications
Forty years of struggle in North Carolina: Workplace segregation and fatal occupational injury rates. McClure ES, Martin AT, Ranapurwala SI, Nocera M, Cantrell J, Marshall S, Richardson DB. (2024). Am J Ind Med.
Disparities in job characteristics by race and sex in a Southern aluminum smelting facility. McClure ES, Robinson WR, Vasudevan P, Cullen MR, Marshall SW, Noth E, Richardson D. (2023). Am J Ind Med, 66(4), 307-319.
Challenges with misclassification of American Indian/Alaska Native race and Hispanic ethnicity on death records in North Carolina occupational fatalities surveillance. McClure ES, Gartner DR, Bell RA, Cruz TH, Nocera M, Marshall SW, Richardson DB. (2022). Front Epidemiol.
Racial Capitalism Within Public Health-How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities. McClure ES, Vasudevan P, Bailey Z, Patel S, Robinson WR. (2020). Am J Epidemiol., 189(11), 1244-1253.
